1 Is Dead, 4 Are Missing After Massachusetts Fire

Other News to Note - Northeast

February 11, 2000

NEWTON, Mass. - One person died and four were missing Thursday after a massive fire in a four-story office building. A state trooper with a cadaver-sniffing dog was searching the smoldering, burned-out building. The missing, thought to be two men and two women, were thought to be on the top floor of the brick building, which burned Wednesday. At least a dozen people were plucked from window ledges by firefighters on ladder trucks as thick smoke darkened the skies and forced the closing of a nearby highway.